THE CROSSROADS...

Well bfore the placements were to commence in my college we participated in an inter college cultural festival conducted by Mar Baselious College of Engineering and Technology..That was the first programme for vivek as a full fledged member of our band..Four guys,all of us from the same class...The programme was a challenge for us..without joseph our lead guitarist who was busy with his project work..no body thought that we would go for the programme without joseph..but we practiced and we did..californication,wake me up when sept ends,boulevard of broken dreams....these were the three songs that we played...we practiced..and for the first time we felt some sort of easiness in being a grp..that was something we never felt since we started the band...the practice went on fine ...

Finally the day came...The fest had a very impressive opening show ...there was a display of fireworks and the inaugration ceremony started with a bang...After that there was a performance by a band named RAGE.. they were awsome...Played my favorites - Metallica and Iron Maiden....But they took loads of time for setting thier equipments...The entire performance i guess had to be cut short..even then it was around 12 midnight wen they finished it ..So our programme that was planned to start that day was postponded to the very next day and that too morning...
The next day the programme started..Thampi the guitarist had to participate in another programme ..so he was not there ..Me,manu and vivek were waiting at the hall where our show was going to be conducted..Well we were all horror struck wen we saw who all were the judges for that day..None other than the lead guitarist for RAGE and the lead guitarist for another professional rock band named AVIAL....We selected our songs since we had bad experiences of playin ROCKIN songs in front of not so appreciating judges..for once we thought ok we are gonna play something that judges may like ...And now wen we prepare and practiced for songs like that ...here come the guys who absolutely loves ROCK....Ah tough luck..the programme started...Me and manu were like "Do we hav to play today??"And we were worried that thampi may not make it for the programme..But at the same time we were like happy coz atleast we dont need to perform in front of those guys..We were watchin the performance of other guys who were there...most of them were really gud..
Well we were selected as the last team to perform...Just bfore the penultimate band started their performance thampi came..he was also suprised to see the judges..ahh at the end we thought of just giving it a shot.....
So our performance started atlast...Dont remember wat all went on durin the show..the only thing i remmeber is that we kinda changed the playing style a bit in the middle...We switched on to reggae style of playin for boulevrd of broken dreams.. I was takin care not to look into the faces of the judges in btw our performance..anyways couldnt help lookin in to thier faces and trying to see wat thier expressions were like ..anyways the performance some how got over..guys from our college came and congragulated us..We knew we made a hell lotta mistakes..
Soon somebody came and told that we won first prize..NAAH its tooooooooo good to be true...Then soon the results were announced..To our hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeee suprise we won the SECOND prize..No idea how we did manage to win it..

but we did...


Well that is some of my experiences at CROSSROADS 2006...




Let the spirit of MEXX live on 4 everrrrrrrrrrrrr..................................